Darcy Aisling

quite callous how the general societal reaction to allegations of child abuse increasing in frequency seems to have been "all these millions of people are lying and faking on the internet for clout, parents are the only real protectors for children" instead of "perhaps there is something wrong structurally with how we treat children"

so venezuela has become a usamerican colony. like that happened and everything carried on like normal

like i know venezuela is going through a huge humanitarian crisis right now and their political regime is low in the list of priorities when tallinmg about it obviously it's just it shocked me to read trump congratulating his secretary of energy on how well he's running what used to be a sovereign country until a few months back you know

a sentiment i come across on here fairly often is "are you a family abolitionist or were you just abused as a kid" which like. 1) god forbid we try to find structural solutions to mitigate interpersonal violence towards the most disenfranchised people in the world. and 2) the violence from parents towards children is only one type of violence within the family form. there's still all the structural (racist, classist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.) violence that goes into maintaining this structure. it interfaces with every other form of oppression out there. open your eyes!!!

Let me know if this is a derailing sentiment but I am a family abolitionist because I had wonderful parents and spent my whole childhood horrified by every other family dynamic I interacted with. I had more autonomy and rights over my own body and life than most if not all of my peers, purely because my parents viewed and treated me as another equal individual. And I was very aware of this, especially when I felt the automatic loss of some of those rights I considered naturally mine when I went to school. It is a radicalising experience to be enfranchised and view the disenfranchisement of everyone else. The discrepancy between how I was treated vs how even quote unquote 'normal families' treated their children was so stark it was impossible for me to ignore.

the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura

Noooo haha don't spread racist ideals and colonizer propaganda by idolizing white european aesthetics above all else and denying the life and accomplishments of native peoples on their own lands

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

I understand the urge to comment on recent trends in which people seem to want increasingly sanitized media compared to the recent past, but when you say things like "people used to just shrug and move on when there were books and movies that made them uncomfortable" it's like...well. actually people used to convict artists of obscenity in a court of law.

a very simple test i have for art these days is “does this text believe that men and women are two separate distinct types of being, does it buy into what for me is the most evil lie ever invented, which is that there are two types of human being called a man and a woman who are somehow fundamentally different - whether this is attributed to biology or the social does not really matter, it is all the same lie by different routes, one simply suggests the patriarchal lie is so powerfully true that its coercions and violences can be totally and inflexibly successful at ‘making’ these myths called men and women, a defeat i refuse to admit.” of course, most art fails. almost all art maybe. fine. there’s interest in plumbing the contours and depth and effects of the lie. but what i really can’t stand is the also common thing of the art buying into the lie and selling it to me as somehow a feminist achievement, this rather stale conviction idea that women are fundamentally different from men, perhaps just better, more moral or more peaceful or whatever of the standard run of supposed consolations for being a different kind of less human thing is supposed to be, which is still to buy into the core lie that is the basis of all patriarchal subjugation - the victorians really had that one down! - but resold to me as for women. and this is of course the sin of HOTD i can never really get over and which for me is a very very serious political disagreement that gets at my deepest held principles and not a frivolous fandom grievance. and it is depressing to me to be confronted constantly how unpopular a belief this is when it feels like it should be the one basic principle of any supposed radical or progressive project.

Here is the article this excerpt is from, which is a piece in itself taking from a book written about rape in the Vietnam War; https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/03/american-rape-of-vietnamese-women-was-considered-standard-operating-procedure/

You all need to understand that autonomy and especially bodily autonomy NEEDS to include being allowed to do things that are bad for you. True bodily autonomy includes being allowed to do things that are risky, drugs, cosmetic procedures and the like. Bodily autonomy needs to include being allowed to get high or smoke or get a BBL. The important part is education about the risks

the way westerners will only listen to you about anything if you use exclusively western sources... its like trying to convince a MAGA person of some obvious fact but you can only use as a source fox news. this is how theyre making us live

no matter how much they hate their governments and their corporations for what they've done to them, they are still the only voices they trust, the only arbiters of truth and reality for them, they will trust their torturer before they trust a foreigner

this is not to say everything in a western publication is to be completely disregarded but it's necessary to develop the literacy skills to contextualize the claims and separate facts from fiction, this should be an ongoing process in which we all help each other like classmates learning together, but it normally feels adversarial, as if a single mistake in our arguments will make the western person shut the door to anything we have to say and run back to arms of uncle sam, taking our small mistake as confirmation that it's ok to continue to hurt us, it is exhausting

it never fails to drive me crazy that hollywood has supposedly churned out tons of "anti vietnam war films" but none of them ever have any vietnamese characters who are allowed to speak. and then you can turn on a ww2 movie and the germans get to talk and talk and talk!